PHP has been a friend of mine since I was in high school. I used to sit around and crank out web code for a home jukebox in PHP 3. In fact, I believe I was there for the alpha and beta stages of PHP 3. Today we have PHP 5 and we are moving toward PHP 6.

There are many reasons to like PHP. For one, it feels a lot like C and C++. For the longest time PHP has lacked in the OO dept. Today with PHP5 that all changes. PHP is nice because it feels much like programming in straight C/C++, but it takes care of all the binary deps. that you would normally have to compile/link yourself. Download a pre-compiled dep, add a config include, and *TADA* you've got that functionality exposed to your scripts. PHP is quick because there isn't a need to compile, save the script and reload in the browser...